The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-03-17

Hon. Lambert Tree, of Washington, having
come into possession of letter written by Will
liam Writ fifty years ago. furnishes copy for
publication in the Times, as follows:
BALTIMORE, March 90, 1901 owe you sew
eral letter., my dear friend, but you are kind and
can allow Tor my situation. have had such
winter as never had before, having cases 10 ar
que, with a broken heart and exhausted
strength when al every step / feel far better
disposed 10 lie down in The grave. Ii was not
ID such frame that could address you. Even
now l am unfit 10 write, for the heavens are
hung with mourning, and the earth with dark
ness. The charm OF life is gone. look a, my
beloved wife, and my still remaining circle Of
lovely children, and my heart reprOaches me
with ingratitude to heaven. / have been too
blessed and am still far too blessed for my just
deserts. The selection of the victim is too slrk
ing not TO be understood. There is q better
world of which have thought TOO little. To
that world she has gone, and thiIher my affec-
tons have followed her. This was heavens de-
sgn see and feel il as distinctly as if an angel
had revealed it-as if my angel daughter had
been permitted to reveal it. Indeed, often i'm
agine that / can see her beckODing me To the
happy world to which she has gone. She was
my companion-my office companion, my libra
ran, my clerk. My papers now bear her in
doisement She pursued her studies in my Office,
by my side; sat with me, walked with me, was
my inexpresssby sweet and inseparable COM
panion never left me but to go and sit with her
dear mother and dotted upon US both as we did
her. Weknew all her intelligence, all the quick
ness and power OF her perceptions, all her Sc
raphc love. She was all love loved all Gods
creation, even the animals, and trees and plants
She loved her God and Savior with an angels
love, and died like saint. Voliaire and Boiling
broke, and The materialisfs of France and Eng-
land and the whole earth, would never be able
nAn f1r~N sI>~~
OF material organization.
Ohl my dear friend, there is future world,
land OF spirits, t. which we are Fastening.
Would TO God you could believe with me that
the Bible is true, The revealed will of God, and
offers TO us the only terms of salvation. Human
reason may revolt at it, and what is poor human
reason, unable 10 explain how a blade of grass
grows. Surrounded every moment with reali-
lies which it admits to be inexplicabe mysteries,
and yet presuming to measure and pronounce
upon the counsels Of Omniscience and rejecting
the Christian religion. because IL is q mystery.
Can anything be more mysterious than the union
of soul and body, unless 1t be the still greater
mystery, which some profess to believe, that
matter can be so organized as to produce the
amazing intellectual results which we witness
10 man? In believing our own existence we be-
lieve a mystery as great as any that the Chris
tian religion presents. for there are no degrees 10
mystery. Pass the sphere Of reason, and all 10
mystery OF eQuai uc8tcci Oil tuc WOIks Ot tuc
Almighty are mysterious to our poor limited fac
ulties.
What series of magnificent mysteries does
astronomy PRESENT. Philosophers resolve the
motion oi the planets into gravitaiion. and what
is 9ravitationf Let reason answer the question.
Il cannot do II. She finds herself involved in .
world OF mysteries, and yet she rejects the Chris
tian religion because ii Is mystery. Is not God
himself = mystery or If the solar system is be-
ljeved TO be uncreated and eternal, 10 not that a
mys.eryf Would have man renounce his
reasonf No I ask only that he will conhne
| IL 10 its proper sphere, and not pronounce the
ocean without bottom because he cannot touch
| Il with an inch Of line.
Believe me, my dear friend, this subject re-
oniree q more solemn reconsideration. have
read Voliaire, Bolingbroke, 0ibbon, Hume, and
= great many more Of those writer's They have
nuxzled but never convinced me. In my
Younger DAYS was struck. with their novelty.
yiyaci,y, vi, ingenuity, and power Of ridicule
Sssrt ~ that vas III ialse and hollow, however
riansIhls ths axtesick Within year or two
have besn reading HorDe's Introduction TO the
asudv Oh ecFiniuYeA sMbere al their asgu-
menis are arayA I'D ascending 70 ny judg.
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